Our Sunshine Boys: awards

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

I won! I feel so honored.

I won another award. Yeah!! I feel so honored. Thank you Angela at Life with one busy boy.

I am supposed to pass this award on to 7 people.

I enjoy visiting and reading the following blogs.

1. Kathy at The J Crew

2. Karen at Snakes, Snails and Puppydog tails

3. Jen at Cupcakes and Cartwheels

4. Missy at It's Almost Naptime

5. Ann at A Holy Experience

6. Katherine at Raising Five

7. and the Mommy at 4 under 3

About the boys

As of 3/31/08

Ryan is 4 1/2 years old. He is in preschool and loves every minute of it. He loves to color and he loves Larry Boy, the superhero from Veggie Tales.

Jack is almost 3 and he is the aggressive one. He likes to pick on his older brother. Even though he picks on Ryan, he likes to do whatever his big brother does.

Evan is 4 months old but is the size of an average newborn. He was born 9 weeks early. He was only 1 lb 15 ounces and 12 1/2 inches long at birth.

All of the boys have had their medical issues.

Ryan was diagnosed at birth with hydrocephalus. He was shunted at 3 days old. That shunt failed at about a year old. That is when the docs performed a third ventriculostomy. That failed one month later and was redone. His last surgery was January 2009 when he was 5. He has MRI's annually to make sure the hydrocephalus is under control.

Jack was diagnosed at 3 months old with hydrocephalus. He was shunted immediately but that shunt failed at 7 months old. They performed a third ventriculostomy and he has not had another surgery since. He has MRI's once a year.

Evan was born Intrauterine Growth Restricted(IUGR). He was born at 31 weeks 3 days gestational age. He was only 1 lb 15 ounces and he spent almost 2 months in the NICU.